HC Deb 19 May 1884 vol 288 cc655-6
MR. HEALY

asked the Chief Secretary to the lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Magistrates in Ireland who become bankrupt are allowed to retain the Commission of the Peace?

MR. TREVELYAN

Whenever it comes to the Lord Chancellor's notice that a magistrate has become bankrupt, or arranged with his creditors, his Lordship causes a notice to be sent to such magistrate, calling his attention to the 21st section of the 35 & 36 Vict. chapter 57, and informing him that in consequence of the provisions of that section his name must be omitted from the list of those holding the Commission of the Peace.

MR. HEALY

I will send the right hon. Gentleman a copy of the newspaper report dealing with this matter.

COLONEL KING-HARMAN

Does the right hon. Gentleman mean to say that; the Act in question refers to a magistrate who makes an arrangement with his creditors?

MR. TREVELYAN

That is the answer I received from the Secretary of the Lord Chancellor.

MR. HEALY

Does the Lord Chancellor consider it sufficient to have a man's name appear in Stubbs' List?

[No reply.]